personal mastery & leadership excellence

About Us

We are experts in consulting and facilitating organizational transformation. We are Julia Culen, Christian Mayhofer and a diverse network of partners from a variety of territories.

We help our clients to powerfully master their problems and challenges in their own genuine way. Our practice as coaches and consultants is based on many years of experience across topics, regions and clients.

Work areas & Offerings

Consulting

We consult and team with Leaders to develop their organizations in their own and genuine way and to regain their power. That takes place in the arenas of Integrated Corporate Development, Strategy, Leadership, Corporate Culture, Agility, New Work, Business model innovation and Core Purpose.

Coaching

Coachings are of help to work on specific answers for actual problems, challenges and solve questions unanswered. Sometimes this will be individual work, sometimes its collective work within Leadership teams.

Personal Mastery Seminar

Personal Mastery focusses on Mastery in being with yourself and others. The more challenging and complex the going gets, the more it is of utmost importance to live and act your life as a Leader from a clear mind, personal resliniance and integrity.

The 1-2 day seminar aimes on strengthening the individual participant. It helps the individual to focus on her own views, its possible limitations and the opening to new possibilities. It allows to regain strength, energy and clarity and enables to take full responsibility. Personal Mastery is rooted in Zen and other Wisdom traditions and uses concepts and models of Body Work, Brain research, Psychoanalysis- und Therapy, Leadership, Coaching and Philosophy. Folder for Download here

Meditation

Meditation is the central practice of many Wisdom Traditions. It helps to clear ones own mind, meet ones own concepts and its limitations, sharpens ones perception and allows to be in peace with ones own Being. It helps to bring peace in owns own life. Thats a lot. Peaceful Mind - Peaceful Body. It takes some time to develop a practice therin. A small community (Sangha) often is helpful, sometimes the Leadership Team is a perfect community for that. That changes everything. Christian has refined his practice over almost 40 years in Tibetan Buddhism, Zen and Advaita. He is an ordained monk.

Retreats

Retreats serve the purpose of stepping back, taking a break from the daily buzz of business, executive powerplays and managerial performance. They are tailor made to the needs of our clients and vary in its design. They allow exchange, sharing, introspection, meditation, collective breathing out. They often do not aim in a linear and direct way towards the next and better solution but a collective view on shared goals and purpose, the larger body of the organization and the strengthening of the whole. New and shared views become possible and allow the collected forces to align to the wellbeing of the organization.

Retreats are not like typical Off-Site Meetings or Teambuildings.

Dharma Talks

An ancient practice, developed by our ancestors and wisdom teachers to gather as community (Sangha) around the Dharma. It´s a practice to strengthen the Sangha and to develop and refine the spiritual and social path of the individual as well as the whole body of practioners. We bring this practice as a quality of refinment and of joint reflection to companies, corporations and Leadership teams. It supports to devlope connectedness, fosters trust, cooperation and cretaivity and allows to join forces and master obstacles while sailing the unknown.

Conferences

We do Key Notes as well as interactive sessions at conferences and lead large group interventions around the topics of Leadership, New Work, Self organization, Change Management,Corporate Culture, etc (eg. Corporate Culture Jam)

Workshops and sessions at public converences and Management Meetings, Corporate conferences

Talks and Sessions in the course of change processes or Leadership Development programs

Single workshops / Offsites on topics such as development of Leadership Frameworks, Communikation, Leadership et al.

Partnerships

We partner with hand picked colleages or initiatives for certain projects or topics, eg. Strategie Austria, the University of Vienna, DNA and the ÖBAM - Österreichischer Bundesverband für Achtsamkeit/Mindfulness

Research

We do research at the intersect of Economy, Science and Wisdom Traditions. For the time being we focus on the following:

Future World of Work / New Work: study with the University of Vienna (Infos)

Clients about us

“Together we created an organizational change process to adapt the business to increasing market complexity, globalization, and ultimately, customer needs and desires. Our team was stimulated and challenged to not only question our existing assumptions and paradigms, but also to develop enhanced new ones, which helped us to think and act “outside the box. ”Their personalized and interdisciplinary approach worked exceptionally well, and initiated significant change in our organization. We are now able to take a series of bold steps forward and our customers continue to reap the benefits.”

--Daniel Cohen, Principal Owner at Swarovski Corporation, RI, USA

"To me you are the Gurus of business consulting. With your very independent view on things and your out of the box thinking you are creating a truly sustainable and positive impact on people, groups, teams, organizations and on societey!

“Christian and Julia played a key role in our development towards a less hierarchical, more empowered, self-organized and more agile organization, helping us as individuals and as an organization. As a result of this transformational process we managed to grow in a very competitive market environment and outperform our competitors.

We are thankful to find the right balance of pushing us to new frontiers and helping us overcome critical operational issues during our journey.”

-- Martin Schiechtl, SVP Marketing at Swarovski, Austria

“For leaders it is not easy to see that Personal Mastery creates the conditions for Business Excellence —our assumptions have been so fundamentally challenged that something new could emerge."

-- Michael Fleischhacker, Editor in Chief “Die Presse”

“Julia and Christian have helped us in our transformation process during the last couple of years. They are rather unconventional and thought provoking consultants and coaches, encouraging and supporting us to push our boundaries and navigating new territories. I recommend them to anyone who is ready to move out of the comfort zone.”

-- Rupert Roniger, CEO, Light for the World International

"In just one day my Leadership Team worked on all major questions concerning our business: purpose, strategy and leadership mastery.

We repeated this one day format after one year, with a strong sense of empowerment as Team of Leaders"

-- Andreas Raab, Managing Director STYRIA Medienhaus Lifestyle

"Julias hands-on advise enlightenment on things which look complicated was amazing. She is simply a simplifier. She breakes complex things in to pieces and show how easy and simple they are while dismantled."

-- Yetnebersh Nigussie, Alternative Nobel Prize 2017 laureate

I've been dazzled by Julia's ability to facilitate leadership work with clients as well as lead a consulting company. Her brilliant mind and open heart make her a wonderful workshop leader. I see her also as an example of how a wise and powerful woman can succeed in the business world and her personal life.